[2021] Surviving Mars - Audio lost

Tunnelrind said: Given the amount of bug reports I've seen on this on the forum, I'm curious why it isn't on the known issues list.

I've seen reports here of crashes when disconnecting various USB devices, but not the actual game audio disappearing during play, that I recall anyway.

What do you need to do to recover from this state? Does exiting and restarting the game do it? Or you need to reboot?  

That is possible, although it raises the question why would that bug not be affecting everyone.

If you change to a different audio output device, eg 'Speakers/Headphones (Realtek(R) Audio)' as a test, does it still happen?  

Let's see what drivers are in use.

DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.  

Almost certainly the audio driver then. Glad you got there!